The Japanese are amazing engineers, look at those Tokyo buildings swaying feet in the earthquake, but not falling down. Which is why it is astounding, with their care and redundancy and history of excellence, that we are facing three reactor meltdowns because there isn't electricity to run the cooling. And the backup generators don't work, because they didn't think of raising them above disaster flood level.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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